I never expected such a quick response. Nor would I have ever expected to be corrected by a man of such stature and experience as Mr. Ernst. I am outgunned because all I ever had was a high school education and a mediocre life running heavy equipment, construction and mining work.
However, I was often times working on jobs that required a lot of attention to compaction, and we had the best heavy equipment and hand compaction machine available. I worked for a large construction company running various excavation and compaction equipment on a huge, coal fired, power generation plant at Delta Utah. In Wyoming, I ran equipment at the largest open pit uranium mine in the world, where we moved over 9 billion tons of material where compaction was a necessary and important part of our job. The same was true at Treeport McMoran”s open pit gold mine when I worked there. In 1928 when the castle was built, compaction and drainage were not commonly spoken words. That castle has shifted and will shift some more. Take my word for it.
Now Mr. Ernst, I am not going to get in a long back and forth letter writing dialog with you because you have the pedigree and I do not. So most of the readers would think I am nuts. But you should take four or five laborers, or rent one of those tiny excavators and take another look at those footings and foundations on the front side of the building or at least read pages 52, 53 and especially 54 and look at the pictures in the 2009 appraisal.
As far as the wonderful boards in the castle, I don”t doubt that for a minute because somewhere I read the termites like it too.
Nuf sed (sic), you”ve got the best hand. I fold.
Wes Lyman
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